Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Sleeping Angelica... Lot n° 31779

Black chalk heightened with white  and wash on paper laid down on period paper and decorated with gold Inscribed (or signed) "P. P. Rubens" on the attached paper. 32 X 41 cm Provenance: Estate of Yehuda and Shula Prihar. "Old Masters and 19th Century Continental Drawings and Watercolors", Christie's, London, July 15th 1980, number 74 in the catalogue. Notes: A rare preparation for the painting which has disappeared during the 19th century. see: Koenraad Jonckheere, "The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Dutch Golden Age", Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008, fig. 100. Another version of the same subject with different background, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.